I noticed this the other week, watching my teen nephew and his identically dressed friend walking off on their own away from our little group. It's still better than the stupid bell bottoms we had. Each generation has their thing. This one coming on the, um, heals of showing no sock, so there's the rebel in that.

“They laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike.”~~Patty Duke

I hate white socks, so I wear black ankle socks if I have shorts/shoes on--never crew socks with shorts.

One thing I noticed in the last month with younger cyclists in my group is 20-something guys wearing calf-high socks like European soccer socks. That looks really odd with cycling shorts. At first, I thought they were compression socks, but they're regular knee-high socks. Weird.